Tag: Personal finance writing

Unless you live in a city with widespread, reliable public transportation, chances are you’re going to need a set of wheels at some point. Owning a car can be life-changing, but you need to start on the right foot from the beginning to make the experience a good one. Read the rest at The Financial…

Like any good nerd does, I love a quiz — especially the kind that promises to provide insights into my soul and personality (or, y’know, confirm for the hundredth time that I am indeed a Ravenclaw). Enter TFD’s Money Personality Matrix. At last, along with my Myers-Briggs and DISC, I could discover my money identity….

It’s just me and my husband at the old homestead, so our grocery bills have never reached the numbers a family of three or four sees. But over the last few years, I’ve definitely noticed that our spending was on an upward trajectory. I sort of blame it on our rising paychecks. Money was much…

A casual Google search for “wardrobe essentials” produces about 99,000,000 results, most of which are listicles declaring the X number of clothing items every woman needs in her closet — everything from a trusty pair of boots to a white button-down shirt. As someone who’s 100% on board with not having more than I actually…

Despite being raised to mind my manners, I’ve come to accept that I’m hugely nosy — especially when it comes to money. In most cases, I draw the line at asking people how much money they make, but I’m always interested in talking about how they budget, what they spend, and how they save and/or…